Sometimes, you want to move two objects in a photo closer to each other. With the Content-Aware Move tool, you can accomplish this result in just a few clicks. Photoshop Elements does magic in the background to make sure that the background looks perfect.

Data analytics has hit the mainstream. How can data analytics make us all better marketers, and how can we all play the role of data analyst, regardless of background or experience? Learn from chefs, gamblers and narcissists everywhere.

Marketing manager Eric Philpott speaks with SpeedGrade product manager Patrick Palmer on the 10th anniversary of the color grading application. The interview covers some of the background of SpeedGrade, how some artists are using SpeedGrade today, including renowned cinematographer Tom Fährmann, colorist Thomas Bergmann, and filmmaker Will Read. The piece concludes with suggestions for new users on how to approach the art of color grading in their own work.

In this episode of Adobe Creative Cloud TV, Terry White shows you how to easily extend the background in your portrait to change the aspect ratio to square (1:1) making it easy to post on Instagram or to make it a profile pic on social media.

See how FrameMaker 12 lets you customize the user interface to fit your device, desktop or laptop screen, with a wide choice of darkness, lightness, grey scale or color. You can swiftly choose icons that are more evident and readable to meet your needs.

Julieanne Kost, Adobe Principal Evangelist Photoshop and Lightroom, takes a close look at several feature enhancements and refinements made to scripted patterns including placing patterns along a path, rendering unique trees for concept, architectural and fine art images and scripted border designs. Learn how to unlock the background into a layer with a single click, choose recent colors from the swatches panel and add and change color readouts for multiple color samplers at once.

Claudio Moderini is an interaction design director and researcher, with a background in architecture and industrial design, founder of the Master Program in I-Design and head of Online Programs at Domus Academy, the international institute focused on innovation in design, based in Milan, Italy. His main competences range from creative direction to envisioning and strategic design, to the development of design concepts for future scenarios and interaction design solutions. His main design and research interests range from the introduction of Digital Technology in the everyday life environment, to the potentiality of interactive solutions in supporting the social relations, to the impact of interaction design in the innovation/transformation of the product and service design processes.

The power of the Extract Effect inside Adobe After Effects, This effect creates transparency by keying out a specified brightness range, based on a histogram of a specified channel. It’s best used to create transparency in an image shot against a black or white background or against a background that is dark or bright but consists of more than one color.

Learn the basic techniques of video compositing. Author Jeff Sengstack shows how to layer graphics, video clips, and backgrounds to create an effective composite. Learn more from the complete course at Infiniteskills.com.

Adobe Ideas is a great tool for producing illustrations with your tablet device. In this tutorial, you will learn how to import an image, draw on top of it to create a digital portrait, and then remove the background image to produce your digital illustration.

Photoshop is capable of producing several types of layers; however, you can only have one Background layer. Explore the difference between a layer and a background, and why both are necessary. Learn more from the complete Adobe Photoshop CC course at Infiniteskills.com.

Learn how to get highly accurate selections of people in order to mask and then remove them from a background. See how the Quick Selection tool works, and then refine the mask edge with the Brush tool. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

In this video, learn how to generate patterns that tile perfectly using the Subtle Patterns website and create your own patterns in Photoshop for use in Muse. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Learn how to use track mattes to adjust the transparency and opacity of various layers in a composition. Author Jeff Sengstack demonstrates how to fill display text with video against a background image.
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Separating desired audio from background noise is a painful process. Or rather, it was. Use a visual editor to paint the sounds you want while identifying those you don't, and this tool will do the rest. It is early prototype technology that we are working on in our development labs. This is not part of any Adobe product but is an example of capabilities that we could include in future years.

It's the end of hard matte lines. Keep the details when separating complicated foreground elements like frizzy hair or motion-blurred edges from complex backgrounds. This means you can create natural-looking composites without keying specially shot footage.

Learn how to put a subject in a new environment. Chris Orwig uses the Quick Select tool to build a mask and take a subject from one photo to another. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

This documentary explores what all humans have in common. Although we all have very different experiences and backgrounds, there are a few commonalities that bring us together. This is a beautiful depiction of that commonality through the voices of youth.

Tevin, Joel, Alice, Ackeem and Alex applied independently to take part in the BFI Film Academy, a six week intensive filmmaking course delivered by Eastside Educational Trust. They were selected because they demonstrated a real passion for filmmaking and a desire to develop their skills beyond the work they were doing at school. With different backgrounds and levels of experience in filmmaking they came together as a team to create a short film – they contributed to all aspects of the production as well as attempting to achieve their own individual challenge in a specific role. The filmmakers wanted to take a light-hearted bitter-sweet view on how we aspire to be something we’re not.

"I See Myself..." is a LYRICAL Music Video by Kasiem Aboti Walters introducing himself as an individual, explain a little about what he does and his background information through Hip Hop/Rap. The song then goes on to explain that although Kasiem is a lyricist, dancer and so much more he would like to focus on expanding and promoting my new organization "Dehpeshcii Musiq Entertainment" once he graduates College. Dehpeshcii is a a Multi-Talented Movement created by Kasiem based out of New York City producing PURE UNSIGNED TALENT while educating young people and changing the face of entertainment.

Daniella, Josh and Phoebe applied independently to take part in the BFI Film Academy, a six week intensive filmmaking course delivered by Eastside Educational Trust. They were selected because they demonstrated a real passion for filmmaking and a desire to develop their skills beyond the work they were doing at school. With different backgrounds and levels of experience in filmmaking they came together as a team to create a short film – they contributed to all aspects of the production as well as attempting to achieve their own individual challenge in a specific role. Unlike many of the participants, these students decided to focus on a documentary about a subject which is very close to their hearts. It was hard work but their perseverance paid off and they were able to meet and interview many people to try and effect change in their community.

This film, made collaboratively by students from Instituto Blaise Pascale, Mexico and St. Patrick's Intermediate School, Canada. The film examines the role of teachers and similarities and differences between Mexican and Canadian education. The students created this animation together, forming strong friendships and learning a lot about each others' cultures during the process. The result is an interesting and dynamic film which will be of interest to people of any age and background.

In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast, Terry White shows how to use the New Adobe Photoshop Touch for phones to composite images, remove a background and add a logo before sending it to the desktop version of Photoshop layers and all.

With FrameMaker 11 and you forget about section breaks to segregate landscape pages (which can easily affect numbered headings in Word.) Simple master pages control page layout in FrameMaker, swiftly reshaping columns, background logos, and page orientation. In FrameMaker 11, not only can you instantly insert a landscape page that is disconnected from other pages; you can even change any page to landscape orientation and permit adjacent page content to pagination through it! Discover the joys instantly changing page appearance and orientation with one action. Page layout may be swiftly imported from other documents to save even more time.

Simple shapes—circles, squares, ellipses, and more—can be valuable building blocks in an animation. A rectangle shape can be a basic background for a lower-third title, or it can be the base of a complex, three-dimensional clone animation. In this movie, Ian Robinson introduces the fundamentals of building, transforming, and animating basic shapes.

When someone has had the foresight to film a subject in front of a solid-color background, compositing work gets a lot easier. This video shows you how to use the Keylight effect to key out (make transparent) a solid-color background and use a garbage matte to isolate the area to be keyed.

In this video you'll see how the RAM and disk caches are used to save time, and how you can render compositions in the background so that you don't need to wait for a preview to be rendered before you can resume work.

Glyn Dewis, Photoshop World Instructor, will show you how to quickly create backgrounds and composite images using techniques available in Photoshop CS6 plus some quick fire Beauty Retouching and lighting effects in the ‘Never Ending Lighting Rig’.

Ever have a problem moving a layer… Or just being able to create transparency. The chances are you're not on a layer; you're on the Background. Let Infinite Skills author, Andy Anderson, explain the difference between backgrounds and layers.

In this episode of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast Terry White shows how to take a photo, separate it from its background and then bring it into Adobe Illustrator to Trace it and make it part of a logo design.

Learn how to use the new 3D Camera Tracker by creating a 3D project that adds animated text to a movie. See how the tracker works in the background to analyze a scene and then automates the addition of an animated 3D camera with text. See how to adjust, manipulate and add animators and other effects to the text for amazing results.

Photoshop CS6 now includes powerful features in backup and autorecovery. From changing the frequency between background saving to working while you save an image, these tools will prove to be invaluable and time efficient for creative artists.

Place and track 3D elements on 2D footage for precise visual effects and motion graphics. The 3D camera tracker automatically analyzes 2D footage in the background and places elements on that footage, with complete control over depth of field, shadows, and reflections.

Lee Brimelow and Tom Nguyen highlight an array of new browser-and-device-friendly features in Flash Player 11.2 such as silent background updates, multi-threaded decoding for video, and mobile stage 3D, which delivers optimized performance for game development.

Many moons ago, Adobe incorporated Aldus Filter Gallery into Photoshop. Colin will show you how these filters may be ready for a rebirth by showing how to combine them with the power of Smart Objects to create new and exciting patterns and backgrounds that can be experiment with and updated dynamically.

In this video demo, Jon Brandt shows you a sneak peek of a potential new feature for searching through a large library of images by identifying images that contain the same people, backgrounds, landmarks, etc.

Carl Larsen shows how to track and replace a sky horizon with mocha, After Effects and mocha shape plug-in. Note: This tutorial was done using mocha for After Effects v2 interface but workflow is the same.

In this episode of the Creative Suite Podcast I'll address one of the most frequently asked questions about Photoshop. How to remove an image from the Background. Although I've done this in the past users want to know how it works when the background is not all the same color. In this episode I'll show you how.

Audition has been the king of noise reduction ever since its introduction from Adobe but sometimes cleaning up noise can be difficult when the background noise overwhelms the foreground audio. If you’ve ever experienced one of these problematic files where removing the noise introduces other artifacts like a “burbly background”, then this episode will help you understand powerful settings like Spectral Decay Rate and Smoothing that help control those artifacts and just remove the noise.

Join Adobe evangelist Jason Levine to find out how you can to edit faster with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 software, which offers cross-platform, native file–based workflows as well as GPU-accelerated filters and effects with the enhanced Adobe Mercury Playback Engine—now on workstations and laptops. Work easily with dual-system sound support; enjoy enhanced project exchange with Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid software, as well as direct integration with Adobe Story; and efficiently export with reliable batch background encoding for delivery to smartphones, tablets, and PCs.

The Warp Stabilizer's ability to automatically distinguish between foreground and background requires user intervention on some shots, such as a greenscreen stage with tracking dots in the background. Learn how to work around these issues.

Its time to start customizing the appearance of your website by stylizing the HTML elements. You’ll start by defining the visual properties of the body text such as the font, color and sizing. Also customize the color of the link text depending on its various states. Then you’ll learn how to add background images.

This lesson covers how to create multiple pages based on the page you have already created earlier. You’ll then learn how to set up the navigation and how to change the content for each page including adding different background graphics by customizing certain CSS properties while still maintaining the shared CSS scheme across the site.

Wish you could render After Effects comps in the background? Wish you could create a watch folder to batch convert media? Wish you had a 64-bit capable application to do all of these things? Well, Adobe Media Encoder is all of that and more. In this episode, Dennis delves into what he thinks are the hidden gems of this under-appreciated application.

Learn about options for preference settings in an Adobe Connect session--from setting the background, to establishing the best user experience by optimizing room bandwidth, to various settings for the different pods in a layout.

In the final installment of this series, Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine takes you through the process of exporting/rendering your DSLR video/stills creations using the 64-bit Adobe Media Encoder. He'll talk about some of the most common formats for going to mobile devices, iPods, blu-ray discs as well as common formats for Web delivery. You'll learn about background rendering and the ability to 'queue' multiple versions of your video edits. Also featured: using *presets* in the Media Encoder for your favorite destinations (like YouTube, Vimeo, HDTV, etc)

One of the biggest challenges today in compositing is removing the background from someone with wispy hair. Now this is EASY in Photoshop CS5. In this episode I'll show you how to do in a couple of minutes what used to take hours or not even possible before in Photoshop.

This video shows a cool effect for backgrounds behind sports photos that can be used in everything from ads to little league and school photos. You'll see that a couple of quick gradients can add some drama and change the entire look and feel of an image.

When we think of blurring we usually think of the Gaussian Blur filter. But the blur photographers get from it tends to look fake. The Lens Blur filter provides a much more realistic blur and, with some setup time, can create some very realistic results.

Discover how easy it is to harness After Effects to create compelling, deep motion graphics with very little thought. In this episode, Dennis walks through how a single element can be combined and reused to create a nice background element.

Mike shows you a trick he learned from Russell Browns at Adobe Max; how to take a Camera Raw image of a Samurai Warrior shot on a green screen background and cut him out using masks and Hue Saturation.

RC discusses Photoshop’s Zoomify tool and how it can be used to post hi-res images to the web. Corey uses Photoshop to create a background graphic using distort filters, halftone patterns, and gradients.

During the session the functionality of the Flex Builder 3 Profiler will be explored through both background lecture, and most importantly various Flex Builder projects tuned to highlight key features of the Profiler.

Corey creates some shapes in Illustrator and turns them into a motion background using After Effects. Rich Harrington is back to show Corey how to use green screen technology with panorama shots in After Effects.

Corey, who is flying solo behind the desk this week, has a tutorial on creating a repeating shape pattern to use as a background. RC recorded an interview with Eddie Tapp about his 90 Percent method of color correction.

In this motion graphics episode, Corey shows us how to use presets in After Effects to make a motion background with some animated text. RC uses Adobe Premiere to place a logo graphic in the corner of a video file.